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Huh, no love for the Toyota bZ / Subaru Solterra. I wonder if there's a reason or if just nobody's gotten to it yet. (It does have good built-in ACC.)

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Some cars it does not support because nobody has been interested in testing it out. Some cars will never be supported because they are using an encrypted CANBUS. The list of cars on that list goes up every year. Eventually no current models will be supportable.

They’re adding new models all the time

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> Some cars it does not support because nobody has been interested in testing it out.

The issue is that the percentage of new cars that could be supported drops as more and more starts encrypting the CAN bus.

New Toyotas are encrypted and will likely not be supported.

2025 bZ4X is just the 2022 with some tweaks. Definitely does not have encrypted CAN bus. Maybe the 2026 bZ has it encrypted.

2023+ bZ4x has an enhanced version of TSK (security/encryption) and is not supported as a result.

It requires steering and cruise control to be able to be controlled by the random pieces of code downloaded from GitHub.

So a 1920s Fords are out, and 2035 BYD flying cars with post-quantum cryptographic command signature enforcement are out too. Toyota bZ sits somewhere in the middle of those. IIRC they got past some types of Toyota security keys but not all.

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